Portable blacking kit.



C. S. REID.

PORTABLEBLACKING KIT.

APPLICATION FILED OCT. 15, mm,

1 293,925 Patented Feb. 11, 1919.

f Il 3 [I 1 2 i H! 7 1 5 CHA'UNCEY S REID, OF BEEN HAM, TEXAS.

PORTABLE BLACKING KIT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1 1, 1919.

Application filed October 15, 1918. Serial No. 258,237.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNOEY S. REID, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Brenham, in the county of Wash ington and State of Texas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Portable Blacking Kits, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a portable blacking kit designed mainly for the use of travelers, soldiers, or parties desiring a blacking outfit that can be stored in a very small space, and easily carried from one place to another.

The invention consists in the novel features of construction hereinafter described, pointed out in the claims, and shown in the accompanying drawing in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the box closed.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical section through the device, set up for use.

Fig. 3 is an inverted plan view of the box top.

Fig. Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a detail sectional view showing a slight modification.

In the drawings 1 designates a box of suitable size and substantially rectangular in outline. The box has its end walls 2 sloping slightly upwardly and inwardly, the base of the box being slightly longer than the top.

A slidable cover or top 3 is provided for the box, and said cover has on its upper 4 is a section on the line H of face, viz. the face exposed to view when the box is closed and the cover in normal posltion, two parallel grooves 4, said grooves being arranged adjacent opposite ends of the cover. The bottom of the box, on its inner face, is provided with similar grooves 5, but as the base of the box is longer than the top, the grooves 5 of the bottom are slightly farther apart than the grooves 4 of the cover.

Two flat plates 6 and 7 are adapted to lie in the box when not in use, being just wide enough to fit snugly in the box and just thick enough to fit the grooves 4c and 5.

To the underside of the cover I secure a plate, preferably of metal, 8 having the outline of a shoe sole, and adjacent one end thereof I paint or mark on the cover the outl1ne of a heel, as at 9.

It will be noted that one of the plates laid 1n the box, and designed as 7, is shorter than the plate 6.

In the box will be placed blacking brushes, cloth and the usual articles carried in a kit of this kind.

When the outfit is to be used the cover is drawn out, the box emptied and the plates 6 and 7 fitted in the grooves 5, respectively, the cover is then inverted and the grooves 4: fitted to the upper ends of the plates.

One of the plates being shorter than the other the cover will be held at an angle,

- and the plates 6, 7 will also set at a slight angle to each other, due to the inclination of the box walls and the greater distance be tween the grooves 5 than between grooves 4. This will cause the plates to wedge in the grooves and in the box and they will present a very firm and solid support for the cover, which with its plate 8 forms the foot rest when the box is in use for blacking purposes. In Fig. 5 I show a slight modification in which a plate 6* is shown hinged at the bottom, instead of being fitted into a groove 5. But the form shown in Fig. 2 is a cheaper construction and is the one preferred.

What I claim is:

1. In a device of the kind described, the combination with a box, of a slidable invertible cover, and supports normally concealed within the box and adapted to hold the cover above the box in inverted position.

2. A device of the kind described comprising a box having a detachable cover, grooves being formed in the cover and in the box bottom, and plates adapted to fit within the box when not in use, and to stand upright in the box when in use, the ends of the plates when in use fitting respectively the grooves of the box and the cover.

3. A device of the kind described comprising a box having upwardly inclined ends and having transverse grooves in the bottom adjacent the ends, plates adapted to normally. lie in the box and when in upright position to fit in said grooves and rest against said ends, and a box cover having trans:

verse grooves adapted to receive the upper ends of the plates and to be supported thereby above the box when in operative position.

4. In a device of the'kind desoribed,-a box having upwardly and inwardly inclined ends, a slidable top having a sole plate on its inner face and parallel grooves on its outer face, and supportsnormally lying on the box bottom and adapted in uprlght position to rest against the ends of the 10 being shorter than the other, as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature. 15

OHAUNCEY S, REID.

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